This fresh series of thickly painted phrases on pre-made canvases is titled,“Slogans”. Social media platforms such as Facebook & Twitter have become arenas of free exchange where the dream of Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” meets the age of “Digital Reproduction”. From this, ideas & individual histories are conveyed, archived, received, edited, and reinvented at the level of the individual.
The short phrase or poetic utterance has become visible. Born of a methodology within which text, like paint is inherently abstract,the meanings of these words like that of paintings transform with each viewer, with each day and engage the viewer in a dialogue where form and content cease and desists in favor of the longevity of narrative.
Drawing from a broad range of influences: art history, philosophy, pop culture, history, literature, movies, social networking, music, memory and nature, these works are experiments in freeing painting from certain stylistic restrictions and taking it somewhere closer to drawing. In this series, medium and support are reduced to their most immediate and available attributes in order to give inspiration the screen.
Michelle Heinz was born in Chicago & earned her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lived in South Dakota for 11 years where she completed her MFA at the University of South Dakota and was a professor at South Dakota State University. Her desire towards aesthetic theory led her to begin a PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Criticism, &
Theory from The Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Michelle now lives and works in New York City.
Michelle Heinz
